Elmwood Community High School - Ulmus Yearbook (Elmwood, IL)

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W W W L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L ' ali e I ULMIS lm L 7 Class will E, the Senior Class of Elmwood High School, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, being near the end of our hectic career in the annals of the history of this school, as decreed by the Faculty, have on this day made our last loving bequeaths to our friends. This will has been witnessed and signed and therefore it cannot be disputed with truth, but that it is legal and will be enacted in exact detail up-on our passing the milestone of graduation. E, the Faculty, do give and bequeath our constitutional laws to all those who would follow the straight and narrow path to a sure reward in the end, of all that is worldly. E, the Seniors, bequeath, according to custom and on account of necessity on the part of the Freshman class as a whole, our manners, and in a word, summing it all up, our superiority. Dean Proctor, do give and bequeath my pug nose and loving grin to Rolen Searle. VVard Schori, do give and bequeath my lordly manner to Stanton Moore. Mary Noggle, do give and bequeath my dates with Dale Threw to Corinne Zinn. Ada Hoyt, do give and bequeath my renowned interest in ethereal things to Louis VVindish. Adell McVey, do give and bequeath my trying times in the office to Ada Bohrer. Clarabel Herbert, do give and bequeath my reticient ways to Louise Shawvcr, and Doc Simkins. Bertha Dalton, do give and bequeath my lovely race horse to Francis Yerby. Dorothea Bowman, do give and bequeath my snappy walk to Bertha. Kruse. Julia Dwyer, do give and bequeath my school teaching ability to Cleo DeFord. Ruth Cullings, do give and bequeath my classic dancing to Alice Redding. Doris Dobbs, do give and bequeath my wild Ways to Clarinda VVasson. Lester Hartley, do give and bequeath my Ford to James Foster. Milford Kirkbride, do give and bequeath my giant stature to John McKinty, Irene Maher, do give and bequeath my senseless Hgabi' to Cora Miller. Thomas Lee, do give and bequeath my beautiful curls to Jesse Boice. Thomas Miller, do give and bequeath my bashfulness to Ralph Montgomery. Harley Fleisher, do give Zilld bequeath my beautiful disposition, especially in an argument, to Bud Shively. DeForest Hitchcock, do give and bequeath my indomitable will to one of the weaker sex, Marie Fleisher. I, NVayne Callis, do give and bequeath my studied looks to Glenn DeFord. I, Lowell Redding, do give and bequeath my graceful manners to Bill Proctor. I, Carl Scragg, do give and bequeath my absorbent mind to Sanford Coon. I, Owen Hubbell, do give and bequeath my unrivaled popularity and good looks to Oral Gallagher. This above will has been witnessed and duly signed on this 13th day of January, nineteen twenty-six. VVITNE-SSES. Pnor. J. H. FRANCIS, REBA RIDDLE JAMES HEllllI01'I' Signed, CLASS OF 1926. ,ag i .. f---W - , TWENTY-TWO 1926

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ULMUS 'li Q. I M f- jjj tj ff E. Biroa oasttiim1g:':fll955J Harley Fleisher, l'nited States Senator from Illinois, today won a heated debate in the House, on the question of the hour, XVoman Suffrage in Armenia. VVard Schori, editor of the New York Times, has embarked for England to get an interview with King George. He wishes the material for his newspaper, which is a huge success. DeForest Hitchcock, the noted engineer, has recently finished his plans for a Transatlantic bridge, which has always been his greatest ambition. You can now walk to Paris for your divorces. Milford Kirkbride has just solved an economic problem of substituting soapsuds and chalk dust for manufacturing bread. A finer pastry can be made from talcum powder and hair tonic. Carl Scragg was drowned when the boat sank on which he was sailing for China to study the native language. He thought it would aid him in defeating Jack Dempsey in his coming fight with the champion. Owen Hubbell, or otherwise John Lexham, has just completed a successful picture entitled, The Five Hundred Kisses. Thomas Lee of the Kansas City Night Hawksf, will now favor you with a saxophone selection which he devised, entitled. Ministerial Blues. Dean Proctor, a. world renowned traveler, has just made a present of a fragment of King T11t's tomb to the Taft Historical Society of Elmwood. 'l'homas Miller has just won the Olympian trophy for VVorld's record in High Jump. Lester Hartley has been chosen as the healthiest man in America. The doctors never get anything from him. Lowell Redding, the successor of Sherlock Holmes, as a detective, has received a fabulous annuity from a wealthy man for discovering who eloped with his wife. VVayne Callis has just accepted a fifty-year contract with Paramount producers. Elm- wood fans are much elated when his pictures come to town. Julia Dwyer has just shipped the largest amount of chickens to Peoria ever sent via the MQ. It took two locomotives to pull the procession of two hundred box cars at their fullest capacity. F Dorothea Bowman is visiting her parents on her vacation from the Krisher Sz Rambo circus, in which she is a ballet dancer, Adell McVey has requested that the Girls' Glee Club of '26 sing the number 'tSweeter as the Days go By. She is celebrating her tenth wedding anniversary with the famous pan- cake turner of Canton. Irene Maher accompanied Dorothea Bowman as far as the station, where she was met by her husband, who runs a dairy farm just north of town. V Ruth Cullings has just become engaged to Hondurand Anderson, a Swedish sculptor. On account of their following the same art, they decided to get married. Cvlarabel Herbert has a contract to sing in the Palace, Saturday night. She is a. famous prima donna, having studied in Berlin for 20 years. Ada Hoyt will visit the VVoman's Club of Elmwood, to show the progress made by that type of organization in Dunlap, under her supervision Bertha Dalton,'the daring aviatrix, will perform in Flanegin's field north of town at the fourth of July celebration. Mary Noggle who conducts free training in the embroidery art, will conduct one such class in the Reading lioom of the library, Saturday afternoon. Doris Dobbs has been called to the bedside of President Coolidge in the capacity of head nurse. Her services were greatly solicited on account of her record of never losing a patient during her career of nursing. 1,,,f Y H fn' YLQQQ-1, 'wfgw Y 1 9 2 6 TWENTV-THREE